有趣：軟體 Bug 的起源

軟體運行中因為程式本身有錯誤而造成的功能異常、當機...等現象統稱為臭蟲 (Bug), 這名詞是怎樣來的?

Software Bug 一詞起源於1945年後期，當時還是真空管電腦的時代，9月9日當天哈佛大學實驗室內的計算機出現了問題，Hopper 女士仔細地檢查過 Mark II 計算機後，發現繼電器上有一隻蛾貼附在上頭，後來他們將這隻蛾拿掉後，貼在工作日誌上頭，此後，我們就開始指稱電腦系統異常為 Bug 了。

以下是原文的片段
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945 [sic]. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitches [sic] in a program a bug


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